Doctor Who Vs. Trial & Retribution X

Lynda La Plante's

acclaimed crime drama

 returned to ITV in

January 2007 - David

Hayman, Dorian Lough,

Victoria Smurfit, and

Sarah Ozeke reprised

their respective roles (as DCS Walker, DS

Satchell, DCI Connor, and DC West), whilst

Vince Leigh debuted as

DS Palmer. Like La Plante's earlier hit series Prime Suspect, the programme employed a distinctive split-screen technique.

A repeat run of this ten-part season (now comprised of five cases) concluded on ITV3 last night - it featured Michael Fassbender, Gemma Jones, and a total of thirty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Sins of the Father

• [Patricia] Claire Bloom [born Blume] (Helen) was the Woman in The End of Time
• Greg Wise (Harrowgate) voiced Garrison Clay for Big Finish's Last Words (2024)
• Glynis Barber [born van der Riet] (Dora) voiced Kathy Blake for The Sinestran Kill (2019), and Nicholaa de la Haye for The Outlaws (2022)
• Rachel Davies (Ellen) was Camilla in State of Decay
• Carey [Hannah] Mulligan (Emily) was Sally Sparrow in Blink
• Ellen [Dorothy] Thomas (Judge Addo) was a Clockwork Droid in The Girl in the Fireplace and A Celebration, then Carmen in Planet of the Dead
• Zahra Ahmadi (DC Folks) was Missy in Nightmare in Silver

Closure

• Michael Brandon (Stanford) and Kelly Hunter (Mrs. Douglas) both starred in The Stolen Earth, as General Sanchez and the Shadow Architect - Brandon then voiced CP Doveday for Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (2010), and Narrator/Train driver for Calamity Jenny (2021), whilst Hunter returned in The Magician's Apprentice 
• Trevor Cooper (DI Shawl) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, and voiced Stenton Rull for Kaldor City (2001-4), Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse, Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/ Stennan/Sentries for Army of Death (2011), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), Sir Joseph Eagleton/Jonathan Mayfly for The Ghosts of Greenwich, Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr Jago (both 2019), and Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witch (2022)
• Tim McMullan (Brooks) voiced the Eight for Doom Coalition 3 (2016)
• Andrew Garfield (Martin) was Frank in Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks
• Teresa Banham (Sheila) was the Governor in The End of Time
• Stephen [Murphy] Aintree (Bickers) voiced DCI Turnbull for The Condemned (2008)
• Laura Aikman (Kelly) voiced Vendor for Dead and Breakfast, Young Anita for Burrowed Time (both 2019), Lootsa for The Uncertain Shore, Mary Wade for What Lurks Down Under, Townspeople for The Dancing Plague (all 2020), Lila Kreeg for Master!, and Sarah Ellison for A Tragical History (both 2021)
• Issy Van Randwyck (Joyce) voiced Giulia for A Requiem for the Doctor, Miss Quirk for Carnival of Angels (both 2018), Koreelya for The Ultimate Evil (2019), Ma Scarity for Family Matters (2020) and Till Death Us Do Part (2023), Jesko for The Gulf, the Grand Widow for Conspiracy in Space (both 2021), the Seeker/Baladin Smith for The Ribos Inheritance, and Ingrid/Sylvie for Auf Wiedersehen (both 2022)

Paradise Lost (TX: 

• Alex Sanjiv Pillai was director of Joy to the World too
• Adrian Lukis (Dench) voiced Officer Bragg for Cobwebs (2010), Byzan for The Children of Seth (2011), Professor Jeffrey Broderick for Artificial Intelligence (2012) and The Keep (2015), Harvey Marsh for The Justice of Jalxar, Sigmund Freud for Return to the Repressed (both 2013), and Ansillon for Blood of the Time Lords (2022)
• Harriet [Mary] Walter (Judge) was Jo Patterson in Revolution of the Daleks, and voiced Beatrice Mapp for The Boy That Time Forgot (2008)
• David Sibley (Gill) was Pralix in The Pirate Planet, and voiced Kurt Schalk for Persuasion, The Eminence for The Seeds of War (both 2013), Dark Eyes 2, Dark Eyes 3 and Destroy the Infinite (all 2014) and Dark Eyes 4 (2015), Josiah Morton for The Morton Legacy (2017), Valerian for The Time War 1 (2018), Uther Vargosh for Darker Purposes, Sigmund Freud for Conflict Theory (both 2020), and Henry Wotton for The Master of Dorian Gray (2022)
• Nadine [Panchita] Marshall (Tania) voiced Shepstay for Earth Aid (2011), Katrice for You are the Doctor, and Kordel for The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (both 2015)
• Mark [Marcel] Monero (Williams) was Cleric Pedro in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Joseph Mydell (Turner) voiced Garius Moro for Memories of a Tyrant (2019)

Curriculum Vitae

• Dominic Rowan (Ryan) voiced Corwyn for The Burning Prince (2012), and Sergeant West/Shurik Barkov for The Keep
• Gillian Kearney (Gina) voiced Mina Challis for Zygon Hunt (2014)
• David [James] Bamber (Stafford) was Captain Quell in Mummy on the Orient Express, and voiced Emperor Constantine for The Council of Nicaea (2005), and Colonel Ulrik/ Whitmore for The Four Doctors (2010)
• Phyllis Logan (Anna) was Andinio in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Arsher Ali (Radi) was Mason Bennett in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Annabel Mullion (Mrs. Greenway) voiced Julia for The English Way of Death (2015)
• Bhasker Patel (Newsagent) was Jival Chowdry in Turn Left

Mirror Image (TX:

• Suzanne Bertish (Ms Newburgh) voiced Aldis for Nevernor (2020)
• John Normington (Judge) was Morgus in The Caves of Androzani, and Trevor Sigma in The Happiness Patrol
• Rick [George] Warden (James) voiced Styggron/Sonk for The Difference Office (2022)
• Tracey Caudle was also stunt performer on The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe and The Day of the Doctor
• Crispin Layfield was also the stunt co-ordinator on the revived series (from Smith and Jones to the present)